[Tilesathome] Server with 256MB RAM?

[Holger Blum]

Daniel Bossert <db at dabo.ch> schrieb am 24.01.2012 um 13:26 Uhr:

> I have a maschine at home with 32GB; I have build two virualmachines (one
> with 16GB, one with 6GB RAM) which work fine.
> 
> a) Is it needed that one machine has 16GB? Would 12 or 8GB be enough or
> shall I drive it with 16GB?

I have to admit that I don't really have a deeper knowledge of
tah-clients, but I can tell you from my experience that there are
tilesets where 8GB of RAM are not enough.
http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/details/tile/12/2097/1374/ for
example leads to excessive swapping in my 8GB VM. And the diskimage is
on a slow HD, so it may take an hour or so to render or it even fails
before.

So if you can spend the RAM, do it ;-)

Holger